Improving usual care after sudden death in the young with focus on inherited cardiac diseases (the CAREFUL study): a community-based intervention study

Conclusions
The autopsy rate in young SD cases in the Netherlands is low and few families undergo cardiogenetic evaluation to detect inherited cardiac diseases. Two different interventions did not improve this suboptimal situation substantially.

Source: Europace - May 11, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: van der Werf, C., Hendrix, A., Birnie, E., Bots, M. L., Vink, A., Bardai, A., Blom, M. T., Bosch, J., Bruins, W., Das, C., Koster, R. W., Naujocks, T., Schaap, B., Tan, H. L., de Vos, R., de Vries, P., Woonink, F., Doevendans, P. A., van Weert, H. C., Wil Tags: Channelopathies Source Type: research